Well, it's been a long four years for our boy Ron. After spending about a year's worth of time served awaiting trial, physically assaulting one of his court-appointed lawyers, and finally having a trial in which he was convicted and his sentence was "enhanced" for the attack on the defense attorney, Ron Collins spent four more years in federal prison as a convicted felon.
He did some of his time at Elkton FCI, which turned out to be the prison hardest hit by COVID-19 during the 2020-2021 pandemic. Eventually he was transferred (for COVID, he claimed in a private message after he got out) to Fort Dix, another federal facility even farther away from his hometown. Eventually, he got out and was sent to a Halfway House out of RMR Baltimore (the facility itself was in West Virginia), and that's when he started posting on Facebook, participating in a Kiwi Farms thread about him (where he posted his own Social Security Number to the Internet), and private messaging many of the people on his extensive enemies list.
That was not, however, the only time Ron has been on the Internet since his incarceration started. During the summer of 2021, he got his hands on a contraband phone and started posting to Facebook as "The Ghost of Ron Collins." (He even posted to an MMA forum where he had previously spent some time during the run up to his fight with Mike Pesesko.) It wasn't long before the phone was found and confiscated.
In March of 2022, Ron was released to the halfway house from Fort Dix. He immediately started posting on Facebook and even friended various people he hates in a desperate bid for attention. While sharing pointless memes and dumping huge, blurry batches of legal documents on Facebook, he somehow managed to break the rules of the halfway house and was sent back to jail, this time to the Central Regional Jail in West Virginia. That happened in late June, 2022, and his sentence was extended to September 6, 2022.
Presumably when he gets out in September, he'll be more free to post videos and blogs again, since he'll be on parole (?) but not living in the halfway house. My money's on Ron becoming homeless before this is all over, as he and his ailing mother were only barely eking out an existence before he went inside. Now, with the words "Convicted Felon" attached to his name, Ron's going to find his prospects more bleak than ever...
Most notably, based on his Facebook posts since entering the halfway house, Ron is completely unchanged. Nothing about him is different. Nothing about spending 4 years in a federal prison, even a minimum security prison, has changed him in any way. It's a shame, really. He seems destined to keep going back to prison, bouncing in and out of custody for the rest of his days.
Ronald Collins, Jr. was convicted in March of 2019 of two felony counts. One was for lying on the federal form to buy a firearm, and the other was for possessing the gun that he lied to buy. Ron, you see, was involuntary committed to a mental hospital a couple of years back. He has to answer "yes" to a question on the federal firearms form that asks if he has ever been institutionalized like that. Instead, he lied and answered no and, now, finally, after all his years of petty crime, he is finally a felon.
You can see news articles about his conviction here and here.
When "Icy" Mike Pesesko of RKM Training agreed to a backyard fight with Ronald Collins, Jr. (a man previously institutionalized for mental illness and since arrested on federal firearms charges), it raised an interesting question: When a fit, mentally sound adult agrees quite publicly to a backyard fight with a man known to suffer from some form (unspecified or not) of mental illness, and humiliates that man on the Internet to the delight of countless people whom the mentally ill man has threatened, menaced, and libeled... is the winning fighter a bully?
When Ronald Collins fought "Icy Mike" Pesesko in a "Streetbeefs" match in the summer of 2017, it was immediately obvious that Mr. Collins was completely out of his depth. He landed no punches and was at the mercy of Mr. Pesesko the entire time. Subsequent to the match, Pesesko seemd quite proud of his victory (if you forgive us the editorial comment). But was there really anything of which to be proud? A man who works as a personal trainer and who has kickboxing experience would be expected to defeat an untrained, possibly mentally unsound loudmouth from the Internet. Yet Mr. Pesesko has returned to Streetbeefs subsequently (possibly more than once, by the time you read this) to engage in more unregulated backyard fights.
One is forced to wonder about how advisable it is to accept personal training instruction -- as an adult or even as a minor -- from a man willing to risk hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens because he engages in unnecessary fistfights with strangers. Pesesko, for his part, seems to delight in the press these activities generate. He has appeared on podcasts with various martial arts and MMA figures, denigrating at great length the fighting abilities of... well, anyone who isn't Mike Pesesko.
Pesesko is a former police office whose career was evidently cut short by a single-car accident in which he broke his collarbone. You would think, as a former law enforcement officer, that Mr. Pesesko would have little sympathy for someone with Mr. Collins' arrest record. Yet Pesesko, at a mixed martial arts forum, defended Collins, claiming that it was because Collins was "bullied" by people criticizing him online (and thus, presumably, driven to make threats, buy firearms, and menace people he disagrees with).
Mr. Collins has a long history of threatening the families of those who have criticized him online, as chronicled here. It's not out of the question to speculate that perhaps, just perhaps, the reason so many people are "obsessed" with Ronald Collins, Jr. is because he has, oh, I don't know, threatened to beat them unconscious in front of their children, or burn down their houses with their families inside it. Mr. Collins was previously arrested for making "terroristic threats" when he opined on how he could sneak into a law enforcement officer's home and slit his throat in his bed next to the man's sleeping wife, if memory serves... but surely, it was that police officer's "obsession" with Ronald Collins that drove Mr. Collins to lash out in this fashion?
When you look at the greater picture, a disturbing profile emerges of a small man with a small mind who eagerly beats up people he knows cannot defend themselves from his greater skill and level of fitness. Far from proving a point about mixed martial arts or the delusions of fraudulent martial artists, these histrionics force us to ask a simple question that we must then leave hanging:
Ron Collins has lost to “Icy Mike” at the Street Beefs event. No one is surprised.
Despite Collins having a huge weight advantage (mainly fat), his lack of skill was his downfall. After moving around badly for a few moments while Mike kicked his legs, he was knocked down and allowed to get up again by Mike. He took another light punch and then gave up while still standing.
It should be noted that while Collins was willing to get into the ring with Icy Mike, with whom he has no history, he has always avoided the same with Don Roley and others. His excuse, as expressed on a video posted today, is that the conditions Roley sets requires someone being crippled for the fight to end.
In reality, as this site noted, the actual conditions set down by Roley when Collins showed up at his seminar hiding behind four other people is as follows,
"Just him, just me, no weapons," Roley says. "When it gets too bad, if somebody's looking at, like, a hospital stay, everybody jumps in and stops it."
So when things get too bad everyone steps in and stops things. With four people with Collins, that means that long before a hospital stay would be required the fight could be called off. Things might get to a point where a hospital stay is a reality, but sending someone there is clearly not a requirement for victory. Collins’ friends could have jumped in any time they thought things were getting “too bad.”
Now we can expect this fight to be used as a type of straw man argument. Collins is low hanging fruit. No one has ever been able to verify any of his claims of training under an actual teacher longer than maybe a seminar with Ashida Kim. He is completely untrained and his videos show that he has no idea at all about the realities of combat. Even in his pistol videos he used to have up, he swings the barrel across himself several times. He is self taught off of videos and books. He is a fraud in every definition of the word.
Lumping him in with people that have actual training is dishonest at best. But there are those that make any attempt they can to tear down anything other than what they do. We can expect this now that Collins has been shown to be totally incompetent against someone with actual training.
The debate about MMA vs Traditional Martial Arts (TMA) is a long one. It can’t be dealt with completely in this blog. The defeat of Collins should not be used in this debate and any sort of example.
Collins has avoided any fight with any TMA practitioner. That tells you that he knows he will not do well against them. He makes excuses and blames the other side, but it is rather clear to those paying attention that he lives in complete fear of having his lack of abilities shown to the world. He has made great effort to build his opponent today as a great fighter so it would be like most of us losing a game of golf against Tiger Woods.
There are many TMA practitioners that are cheering Collins’ defeat. They despise his type more than MMA students do. For the TMA crowd, frauds such as Collins get them all painted with the same brush. If Collins actually were willing to face someone from TMA, he would have dozens of people lining up for a chance. But his history is one of never getting into a situation where that can be a reality.
So this fight shows how little a self taught ninja like Collins knows. It may be indicative of all the other people making silly claims like his former friends at the Black Dragon Fighting Society, which let him show up at their events. But it goes no further than that. Collins seems to know that he would lose to any TMA student and avoids giving them a chance to prove it. His lack of ability he showed today does not reflect on anyone who actually has spent years under an instructor.
Ron Collins has exposed his
throat in surrender to Don Roley. Being Collins, he is trying to portray it as
a win. But he has made it clear that he will avoid a confrontation with Roley
no matter what others do.
The feud between the two has been going on for years, from back
when there were message boards devoted to martial arts instead of Facebook. For
those unfamiliar with the story, the next few paragraphs can help fill them in.
For those that have been following it from the start, it might be best to skip
to the bottom.
When the two first encountered each other online, Roley was living
in Japan, fluent in the language and very knowledgeable about the history of
the ninja. He has been called the West’s foremost expert on Fujita Seiko and
the Koga ryu. Collins tried to portray himself as a student and teacher of
ninjutsu, taught by someone with a Japanese name that can’t be verified even
existed and various tall tales that change from time to time. Among those were his
claim that he used his ninjutsu skills as part of his time in the elite USMC
Force Recon. After over a decade of trying to convince everyone that he had
served in this unit, a freedom of information request revealed he had not even
made it through basic training in the Marines.
Collins has had a series of legal troubles resulting in a conviction for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and for battery on a police officer. He has been arrested for allegedly possessing child pornography and for making terroristic threats. While the latter two cases went nowhere, they did result in Collins being declared incompetent to stand trial and committed involuntarily to a mental institution for six months. Collins has responded to these various legal issues by blaming a wide ranging conspiracy against him
involving the police, a local motorcycle gang and various critics of his.
Ever since Roley moved back to the states, Collins has tried to
counter him by saying that he might take a trip out to visit him but Roley was
scared to put up the address of his school for fear that he might encounter
Collins. For years this was the theme that Collins tried to push as Roley took
apart every story he tried to create.
Finally, Roley scheduled a seminar in Lexington Kentucky the same
weekend that Collins would be attending a meeting of the Black Dragon Fighting
Society. He let it be known that if Collins really wanted to challenge him, he
could be found at the location of the seminar and made public announcements
that Collins would not be charged with trespassing if he showed up to fight.
Collins tried to change things instead of agreeing to this. He
started to insist that the fight be on the street, which would lead to both of
them spending time in jail. Roley’s wife has cancer and sometimes after a
treatment of chemo he has to take care of her and their children as she
recovers. He could not risk taking that type of time away from them. Collins
insisted even more when it was clear that Roley would not fight on the streets
of Lexington, and Collins would not say where they could meet, sticking to
inside the hotel that the BDFS event was going on.
But there was a surprise when Collins showed up on Saturday night
with four members of the BDFS. Most of the encounter is captured in a 15 minute
video where Collins stays safely behind the others making big noises, but then
staying silent as others talk about fighting Roley. When Roley says that he
will not fight anyone else until he has had a chance with Collins the rest
stand aside and say it is up to Collins to chose to fight. Instead of stepping
onto the mat where Roley is waiting, Collins announces that he is going to sue
him instead and gets out of there in short order.
This was last October. As of today no one has been served with any
papers in any lawsuit by Collins. Later Collins changed his story to the excuse
that he knew he would go to jail if he had stepped on the mat, which not only
did he not mention until months later but which has been denied by people with
law degrees.
It was a humiliation for Collins and since then he has been
obsessed with Roley. Not a month goes by where there isn’t a blog or two that
Collins writes about him, accusing him of various crimes and ill deeds. in
June, Collins took to the road in what he said was an attempt to show up on
Roley’s front doorstep to challenge him to a fight. Despite this, he never came
closer than an hour’s ride away from Roley’s home. He instead stayed in the
Denver area, an hour North of where Roley lives in Colorado Springs. He made
sure to make mention of Roley’s family and the things he could do to them if he
stopped by while Roley was gone. But while his car was still functional he
never took the drive down, staying up in Denver the whole time. Collins’ car
gave up the ghost a few weeks into his stay in Colorado. He was living on the
street for a while. During his stay in Denver, he had attracted the attention
of a message board devoted to mixed martial arts. He joined and tried to sway
them to his side. The forum had a sub section called the Other Ground, and from
that they took on the name of The OG. Collins did various things such as post a
video of him on a street corner and announcing that he would be there for two
hours if Roley wanted to fight him. Not only did he know that Roley refused to
face the legal troubles of a fight on the street, but he would have almost no
time to get up to where the location was in time given the short, sudden
notice. When Roley did not respond in time, Collins used this to call him a
coward.
When Roley started communicating with the forum, the OG tried to
set up an acceptable venue for the two that would not cause anyone to go to
jail. Collins refused all such attempts. The OG was even willing to rent a
hotel room in the hope it could go on. But Collins, who had been living on the
street for a few days at this point, refused to even consider it.
Finally, on a Sunday night there was an attempt to get the two
together. The OG tried to set up a venue other than the train stations or
street corners Collins was demanding the meet at which would lead to jail time
for both of them. One member made a comment that sounded like he might have a
back yard the two could use and Roley agreed to show up in the morning. Collins
also gave his agreement to doing something in the morning.
But come Monday morning, Collins went off line refusing to
respond. Roley made a trip to Denver and communicated from a library he was
waiting at. As it turns out, there was no location. But the OG scrambled to set
something up at the last moment. All this while, Collins stayed silent. When
the member from Denver that had agreed to ferry Collins to anything that could
have been set up announced he had to get on with his life instead of waiting
for a response from Collins that never came, Roley said he did not see how
things could go on and he too was heading home.
About 20 minutes later, Collins started to respond. Indeed, he has
tried to say that he responded before Roley said he was going home, but the
sequence of posts on the forum prove otherwise. The OG was not ready to give up.They
actually found a gym in the Denver area whose owner was a member there and
willing to let the two use it for the fight the next day. The night before it
could happen, Collins left on a train home saying that he had to take care of
his mother.
A typical response from the OG is this,
“Ron Collins is the pound for pound biggest pussy in the history
of the world. I don't think there is any redemption for you after this. Just
like being a pedophile this will follow you around everywhere you go. Might as well
change your name now and pretend to be a BJJ black belt.”
Collins, of course, tried to portray this as a victory for him. He
claimed his phone was out of order all morning and even tried to say that Roley
announced he was going home after Collins responded. However, Roley’s
announcement was on page 51 and Collins resurfaced on the next page. Collins
claims that since Roley did not think to post a video of him waiting in Denver,
it is proof he was not.
Last weekend, Roley gave a seminar in Maryland. It is only about a
four hour trip between where he was teaching and where Collins lives. There was
an open invitation prior to the Colorado trip for Collins to show up and
challenge Roley to a fight. Collins made various excuses, mainly saying that it
was some sort of legal trap. Just before Roley was about to get on a plane out
to Maryland, Collins suggested that he come out to a location a few hours away
to confront him. This was quite simply not possible to set up on Roley’s end at
the last minute. After he said that he could not make it, but that Collins was
still welcome to show up at the location that had been set for months, Collins
took heart and was very brave about trying to call Roley out and give up his
prior obligations, which he had been paid to do.
Once Collins knew Roley could not make it to the location Collins
had picked, he even went so far as to post the following,
“Don you can fight me this week end and have a video to show your
kids you are diddling and that whore wife if yours... Come on Don either you
want to fight me for calling sick whore wife a whore or you are gonna keep
making excuses...
What kind of man won't defend the honor of his sick dying wife and
children..? Are you that scared of me that you are gonna let me call your wife
a whore and dare you to come out and fight me? Don't you care about her?
What kind if husband are you? What kind of father? Are you
grooming your daughter to be a whore like her mother? Come on Don... I am kinda
pissed at own damn self for saying shit and you don't want to fight me? You
can't drive for 5 hours round trip?”
The OG recoiled at this and Collins tried to pass it off as a
tactic to get Roley to give up teaching on Sunday to come face him. No one
seems to believe that.
In the end, Roley went home and Collins made videos of himself.
Before the end of the weekend, the suggestion was made for one
more chance. Roley is teaching in Lexington in October, the site of their first
face to face meeting, the one where Collins ended up turning and fleeing instead
of fighting.
Roley suggested that the members of the OG set up a neutral
location as Collins claims he wanted.
Collins response at the idea of a really neutral location was as
follows,
“I am telling you I am not wasting my time coming to Lexington...
I can set everything up at home & I am going to be dealing with court,
motions and researching cases for a while as the motions start flying... You
aren't important... I gave Barron multiple shots, I gave you multiple shots...
hell I went to Colorado and all the time I was there you did nothing until I
said I was gonna call it &, now that I am telling you, I am done. I am
gonna fight Icy Mike & you can go fuck yourself if you want me to chase you
to Lexington... No... I don't care I am not going to do it.”
So in the end, the man who claims he showed his bravery by driving
across the country to show up in Denver absolutely refuses to take the short
trip to Lexington to face Roley in a completely neutral location set up by
people outside of either of their control. He claims that he has better things
to do, but no one seems to believe that and express the opinion that it is just
the latest example of him fleeing from Roley.
Roley announced that he saw no way to make Collins actually get in
a ring under any circumstances and said he was through with him.
Today Collins is supposed to face another man named Icy Mike. The
chances are good he will show up. Only Collins seems to think he has a chance.
But he is building it up as a great show of his willingness to fight someone.
He probably hope he thinks it will make up for all the times so far he has had
a real chance to face Roley, but failed to go through.
Collins is trying to build Icy Mike up as a great fighter and keep
on his good side. He has made sure to not say anything disrespectful knowing
that he will have to face him. Odds are that he will lose and present it as him
losing to the best. But in reality, Collins has claimed to have learned
fighting skills from age two, including trips to Japan and various victories in
un verifiable encounters. His destruction will not do him much good.
And in the end, his fighting Icy Mike will only show that he fears
Roley more than he does a stranger who has no particular hatred for him. He
said as much when he wrote, “Icy is worth 100 Roley's and such a better person to fight. At
least I compare Mike to me and be like I lost to that guy... If it Roley, my
God I would have PTSD every time I saw rubber chicken for the shame alone…”
So Collins will face Icy Mike and lose, and then stay safe at home
as Roley teaches a seminar only a short distance away. He claims he is done
with Roley and moving on to other things. But it possibly will only hold until
after the seminar in Lexington.
But for now, Collins is throwing in the towel and giving up talk
of driving to Colorado to threaten Roley’s family. That, at least, is a positive outcome for everyone involved.
It seems the sad story of Ron Collins is coming to a close, not with any great fanfare, but with a sad series of bizarre public stunts that appear set to culminate in a week. Self-described "Sensei" Ron Collins, after posting on a mixed martial arts forum to gain support for his harassment campaign direct at martial arts instructor Don Roley, agreed to a fight challenge on August 26th in Virginia under the auspices of "Street Beefs," a backyard fight organization that posts its participants' fights on YouTube.
Ron's opponent is one Mike Pesesko, the owner of RKM Training, a personal training company in Myrtle Beach. Pesesko is 5 foot 5 and 145 pounds, while Collins is 5 foot 4 and around 185 pounds (although he claims to have lost weight since that measurement). The two are more or less the same age, in their 30s. Pesesko is a kickboxer and personal trainer who has a white belt in BJJ; Collins has, for all intents and purposes, no training at all. The bout, should it occur, will be truly interesting.
Right now, Collins appears to have traveled by train to somewhere in Virginia a week early, to appear in a location where he is not expected for an event that is not yet scheduled. Your guess is as good as ours as to why that's the case. There is much speculation as to whether Collins will show up for his scheduled match with "Icy Mike" Pesesko.
Collins' participation at the MixedMartialArts.com discussion forums have been a bit... troubling, to say the least. While the participants here can't know of the extensive history that Ron has harassing and threatening people and their families online, they have been entirely dismissive of Ron's arrest record and bizarrely encouraging of Ron himself. Infamous progressive podcaster Bob Carson, a far-left internet personality who is very chummy with Frank Dux and Radford "Ashida Kim" Davis, interviewed both Collins and Pesesko on separate evenings.
The shows were dreadful, fraught with the usual production issues that have plagued Carson's show for the entirety of its online run. As Carson wheezed into the microphone or the broadcast dropped out entirely for long swaths of dead air, listeners could hear Collins and Pesesko drinking in the attention. If nothing else, the Ron Collins/Icy Mike bout will be a testament to the arrogant narcissism that characterizes people willing to fight strangers from the Internet... if the fight happens at all.
A week out from the bout, there is still great doubt as to whether the match will indeed take place. Collins made an appearance at, as ThePinkman on YouTube called it, "homosexual dating app" Bullshido.net, where the site's resident legal expert took apart Collins' claims of having skirted a legal trap when he backed down from Don Roley in Kentucky in 2016. As he typically does, Collins quickly abandoned that discussion thread, but not before insulting the participants at MixedMartialArts.com's "OtherGround" discussion forum. These are, of course, the same people Collins has been using for attention since using a proxy to post about his trip to Colorado to menace Don Roley's family.
It is worth remembering that, no matter what happens, there is real danger that Collins will only add Pesesko to the list of people about whom he obsesses. In recent weeks he has become increasingly brazen about the threats he makes against his perceived enemies and their loved ones -- threats that include implied arson, assault, and murder.
Law enforcement in West Virginia has, of course, been notified. No matter what happens on the 26th, though, it seems the long, sad misadventure that is Ron Collins' antics over the last couple of years will slowly fade from public memory, perhaps leaving behind only a viral video of Ron getting beaten... and perhaps leaving nothing at all.
Collins has himself built up his appearance at Street Beefs as something that somehow redeems his claims as long as he simply shows up.
We will see, or we won't. No matter what happens, though, it is unlikely Ron Collins will go on to become a productive member of the martial arts community online.
As this blog goes online, Ron Collins is fleeing back home, tail between his legs. When this blog said last week that Collins probably was already out of Colorado, that was a mistake. Collins was still in the Denver area, but his car had broken down and he was living as a homeless person. But yesterday he left after a person who openly despises him took pity on him and bought him a train ticket home. None of Collins’ friends would help him in his plight and he had to rely on the kindness of an enemy.
Collins made this Colorado trip for the stated purpose of facing Don Roley and fighting him. He posted multiple manic YouTube videos about this during the trip, which he only revealed after the fact. But his stated purpose, that of facing Don Roley, was proved to be a lie. He didn’t want to face Roley; he just wanted to threaten Roley's family.
The excuse Collins had been giving for talking about showing up on Roley’s doorstep and forcing a fight on him was that Roley wouldn’t meet him on any sort of neutral ground. He rejected the idea of going to the seminar Roley is having next month in Maryland with the excuses that it was a legal trap and/or that he would be set upon by several people and beaten to a pulp. Of course, even when official Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) matches had been set up for him to participate in, he rejected those as well. He would not accept anything as neutral ground, so he said that in order to face Roley he would have to show up where Roley’s children sleep and, “Cripple him in his living room in front of his family.”
But really, would Collins have a chance against Roley like that? In Kentucky Collins was very eager to hide behind four other men as they faced Roley for him. When those men he brought stepped aside, Roley stood on the mat waiting for Collins to come at him. Instead, Collins turned and fled. It is hard to believe that Collins would ever risk directly facing Roley again after that show of cowardice. The threat to show up on his doorstep was obviously made to get Roley’s family involved. This would be proved during Collins’ misadventure in Colorado.
Collins was in the Denver area only during his stay in Colorado. He never went down to where Roley lives in Colorado Springs. The two are about an hour’s drive from each other. It was close enough so that he could have driven down unexpectedly at any time, but he never did. After a few days in Denver, Collins’ car had its transmission die and he was stranded on foot. In the end, he had to leave on a train paid for by someone else after a few days of living on the street after his money ran out.
This might have all been worth it in his mind if he could have gotten some sort of win. He reached out to a forum devoted to MMA and joined them, attempting to gain their sympathy and help. He maintained that he was the victim, as he always does. He was unable to understand that the members considered both him and Roley idiots and were largely mocking him. But some did start to feel sorry for him as he maintained that he wanted a neutral venue for the fight with Roley.
In the last few days, it became obvious that he really did have no car and thus the threat to Roley’s family was not a viable one. Roley then went on the offensive, telling the world that he was willing to meet in a gym or something like that to face Collins now that he knew his family wouldn’t have a visit while he was away, supposably to face Collins. From that point, the tables turned on Collins as it became more and more obvious that he was avoiding a fight and Roley was very eager to meet the man that threatened his family.
Roley appealed to the MMA forum to set up a match that would be legal. He is a father who has to take care of his family and he pointed out that mutual consent fights are legal in Colorado, but they must be in the right venue. If they happen in public, both sides can face up to 18 months in jail. Collins then made it clear that he would only fight in public where they would be arrested. This started the change in the way the MMA forum felt about him as all the other members pointed out that Roley was right and that the fight had to go on outside the eyes of the public or arrests would be made. They even got together and tried to get a hotel room to rent for the fight to go on. Collins, living on the street at the time, rejected this idea.
Collins tried to maintain that he wanted to fight, without actually doing anything to make that possible. Even though Roley made it clear that he was not going to fight on the streets, or perhaps because of it, Collins made a little video where he claimed that he was at a certain street corner and would be there for two hours. As stated, the time to drive to the Denver area would be about an hour and he gave no warning so that Roley could be aware of it. It is really doubtful that he was there the entire two hours as well, as his later behavior shows.
Roley put up the following video where he outlined that Collins presence in Colorado wasn’t to fight anyone, but instead threaten his family.
Collins’ response was not a denial that he was threatening them nor contrition if anyone thought he was. Instead he wrote, “And as for Don's family... Fuck his family.” He went on to threaten the families of a few other people in the thread. Sympathy for Collins dropped even more. Collins went on several more times to make implied threats against the families of everyone he does not like, and whom he blames for the sad state of affairs that is his life.
Finally, Collins talked about how he was willing to fight if it was at the train station. One member called for action in finding a gym or other place that would be legal. Roley sent a message that he was fine with the idea. Collins originally said he was as well, but by 7 the next morning had reversed himself and said he was done with Roley. A comment from one of the members who lived in Denver gave the impression that he had a venue lined up for the next day. Roley said he would go.
Yesterday, July tenth, was the day set up and the day Collins had to leave at 7:10 pm. Roley used a friend who was registered with the MMA site to communicate. He left his house at 8:30 and was at a library when it opened 10 in the Denver area. Then he waited. Collins went silent.
As it turns out, there was no venue set up. It was a mistake in communications. The member, named “Phuckles” said that he wanted to view and record the fight, but didn’t have a place they could use out of the eyes of the public. He offered to pick up Collins if a venue could be set up. The MMA members desperately tried to find a place. All the while, Collins was silent and refused to respond.
Finally, Phuckles said that he had a life to lead and that he was giving Collins an 11:30 deadline to respond or he would have to commit to something else. 11:30 came and passed with no response from Collins. Roley announced that without Phuckles help, he didn’t see how anything could happen and he was going home.
An hour later, Collins came back online and started accusing Roley of ducking him.
As this goes on line, Collins is riding the rails, sitting on a train paid for by someone who laughs at him every day. He is probably writing another blog accusing Roley of being a coward and blaming a vast conspiracy for all of the things he hates about himself. He already put up a blog saying that Roley was lying about being at the library in Denver. He demands a video or other proof. Think about that for a moment: Collins couldn't adequately prove that he was in Colorado when asked, to the point that there was great doubt he was even there... but Roley has to prove that Roley is in the state where Roley resides? If any of that makes sense to you, you might be Ron Collins.
After all this came to light, the sentiment on the Mixed Martial Arts forum was universally negative where Collins is concerned. He had, in fact, humiliated himself again, this time in front of a huge audience of MMA fans and exponents who had no reason to know he existed before.
Collins is now without a car, probably completely out of money, and has no support from anyone at the MMA forum or elsewhere to travel again. His attempt to threaten the lives of Roley’s family members has left him without anything to show for it. He undoubtedly will continue his harassment and threats once he is safely sleeping on a couch in West Virginia. He has already started his threats again to show up at Roley’s house. But without help from others, it really is not likely.
Like everything Collins does, this misadventure to Colorado only hurt him. We leave it to Collins on that long, boring train ride back to West Virginia to think about how badly he has made a fool of himself yet again. He has lost... and he is the only one who seems not to know it.
